Chapter 77: The Desperate Governor Hua
At Sishui Pass, the soldiers under Hua Xiong's command were complaining bitterly.
The reason for this is not because they encountered any strong enemy.
It was because their governor Hua Xiong, for some unknown reason, suddenly came up with an idea and started a literacy campaign right here at Sishui Pass.
The so-called literacy campaign does not mean eliminating blind soldiers, but eliminating illiterate people.
Governor Hua said that a person who cannot see anything is blind, and a person who sees words but cannot recognize them is culturally blind.
Abbreviated as illiterate.
People cannot be blind. It is not possible for a word to be placed in front of you and you cannot recognize it but it recognizes you.
Learning to write is very important. In the future, you can write letters to your family members, calculate your military merits and rewards, and you don’t have to worry about being deducted from your money…
Then, they began to find some officers who could read at Sishui Pass and taught the soldiers how to read and write.
Governor Hua said that everyone must learn to write and no one can escape.
Then, the soldiers' nightmare began.
These soldiers at Sishui Pass are all good fighters and are good at fighting.
At this time, if they were suddenly asked to start reading and writing, it would be really difficult for them!
My hands, which were used to holding swords and spears, always felt awkward when I held that small branch to write on the sand, as if my hands were not my own.
Watching the professor writing, I felt it was very easy and casual, and I felt like I had learned it.
But when I really started writing, I found that I had completely failed...
Just a simple horizontal and vertical line, but it can never be drawn straight.
If you look closely at each character, they appear different, but if you look at them again, they all seem to be similar.
Some characters have so many strokes that it’s overwhelming.
They seriously suspected that when Cangjie created characters, he was deliberately making things difficult for them...
On the battlefield, facing countless enemies, the brave soldiers were not afraid at all and dared to fight with their lives with knives in hand. At this moment, they were troubled by these small words and wanted to wipe away tears.
Some people were scratching their heads while trying to write .
At the end of the day, I didn't remember any words, but I lost a lot of hair.
It was only the second day, and many soldiers at Sishui Pass had already developed serious hair loss problems...
"Commander-in-chief... we... we are all warriors, and all we need is to kill people with knives.
There is no use learning these things.
This doesn't kill the enemy either.
You can't... just go over with a stick or a pen and kill people, right?
You can't kill someone by writing...
Moreover, we are all rough people. Those who can read and write are noble people. We, the warriors, cannot learn these noble things..."
Amid the quiet pushing and shoving of some soldiers, Wang Yuan came to Hua Xiong, looked back, mustered up his courage, and said this to Hua Xiong.
Upon hearing this, Hua Xiong gathered all the soldiers at Sishui Pass.
"You guys have been in a lot of trouble these past two days, right?"
Hua Xiong opened his mouth to ask, and all the soldiers nodded, some of them almost cried out loud.
This is not only embarrassing, it can drive people crazy!
"Just now, what Lu Yao asked me should also be what you want to ask, right?
You also feel that learning these words and math is useless, right?
I think these are all from noble families, those famous people who did this, right?"
The soldiers nodded one after another.
Seeing this, Hua Xiong said, “Now, let me tell you, you are all wrong!
I, Hua Xiong, am just like all of you, a fighter .
I can't recognize a single big word, and when a carrying pole falls over, I don't know which character it is.
That is why, even though we fought bravely and sacrificed our lives to kill the enemies, we were still looked down upon by those who only knew a few words, could only talk and engage in empty talk.
He is clearly nothing, yet he dares to act like he is worth a lot of money in front of us, with his tail sticking up in the sky!
This makes me angry just thinking about it!
Why are these guys so arrogant?
Isn’t it because of literacy?
If that is the case, why can't we be literate?
After we learn to read, let’s see how they can still act so high and mighty in front of us!
And, by that time, we will be better than them.
They can only read and write, but we can both read and fight.
If you can’t win the argument , just beat them up. After they’ve been beaten up, they’ll listen to what we say!
Anyway, I, Hua Xiong, can't tolerate this tone.
Don’t think that reading and writing are things that only they can learn. As long as we are willing to put in the effort, we can learn it too!
We are all human beings, why can’t we learn what they can?
I, Hua Xiong, really don’t accept it!
This time, I am determined to deal with this matter!
I, Huaxiong, will study with you!
I, Hua Manzi, am not afraid of this matter, so what are you afraid of?"
As he spoke, Hua Xiong wrote his name Hua Xiong in public, and also wrote the words Sishui Pass.
These were not difficult for Hua Xiong. Hua Xiong's predecessor was illiterate, but he was different.
At most, some characters are more complicated to write and need to be memorized again, that's all.
Of course, he wouldn't tell anyone about this.
Looking at the tall Governor Hua writing these words while holding the branch, the soldiers were speechless for a moment.
Indeed, Governor Hua used to be an illiterate man, no different from them, but now he can write a few words.
If the governor can learn to write a little, why can't they?
Think again about the condescending attitude the scholars had when they looked at them, especially when Wu Qiong came to Sishui Pass two days ago and saw their look, he was really angry.
Think about what the governor said, the scene of holding a knife in one hand and a pen in the other to explain things to these people after learning... It's really exciting.
“In addition, when I promote officials in the future, I will not only look at their military achievements, but also at who knows more characters and who has deeper knowledge.
Under the same military merit, those who know more characters, can write and do math will definitely be promoted first..."
Hua Xiong added...
After some explanation, people were allowed to disperse and continue studying.
" My lord , this... is the solution you came up with?"
Yu Jin moved closer to Hua Xiong and asked in a low voice.
He asked this question very carefully and in a low voice.
He was afraid that the news would leak out accidentally and let the soldiers know that it was because of him that Governor Hua did such a cruel thing.
Then he was beaten to death by these soldiers who were almost driven crazy by the torture of reading and writing!
